Tragedy Quotes (2)
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
According to Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier this is not a quote by Joseph Stalin. Although a 1958 book review in the New York Times used similar words, no citation was provided, and likely because there is none. However, the quote is often seen incorrectly attributed to Stalin, and sometimes Lenin or Heinrich Himmler.
As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.
'75 Years and Still No Peace'. Humanist (Sep 2000)
See also: | Bryan_William (2) | Creationist (9) | Fact (139) | Farce (2) | History (61) | Intelligent Design (3) | Karl Marx (9) | Scopes_John (3) | Trial (6)
